This ATmega Kit provides a good platform to learn and understand the ATmega168 MCU features and capabilities. The included pushbutton, LED and Potentiometer sensor boards allow you to implement various analog and digital experiments.

About Arduino

Arduino is an open-source platform based on boards featuring an Atmel AVR microcontroller with a pre-programmed bootloader and a development environment that implements the Processing / Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The open-source IDE can be downloaded for free (currently for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux).